No I haven’t gone mad, nor has our current self-isolation driven us to eating our bulbs for next spring – thankfully we do have plenty of food. A bulb lasagne is just layering up spring bulbs in a container so that you get a lovely succession of spring blooms as one type finishes and the […]
This week marks a whole year since we first got our allotment. Mark and I have been looking back over photographs from the very beginning and although there might still be lots to do, we’ve come a very long way! I sometimes wonder if we’re taking longer and being more thorough than we need to, […]
Each time I start writing a new blog post, I’m always tempted to say that the current season is my favourite one, or that it’s all about this ingredient or another. However, if I did that it would soon be very clear that all of the seasons are my favourite, and that within each one […]
You know you’re well into the spring season when the lilacs start to bloom. Shrubs put on huge shows of beautiful flower clusters with an intoxicating floral scent that infuses the air. Like most spring blooms, their show is short-lived and only lasts a couple of weeks, and if you bring the cut flowers into […]